David F Mamea

Scriptwriter

New Zealand based David Fa’auliuli Mamea completed the South Seas Film & Television production course, concentrating on screenwriting. Since 2002 he has worked on film, television, theatre and radio projects in genres ranging from sci-fi to soap, comedy to horror, and documentary to drama. He has also directed a feature and a short film, and produced two short films. His one-person-one-puppet play, Still Life With Chickens, won the 2017 Adam New Zealand Play Award in May. David has developed proposals for two separate TV series, and has written a pilot for each one.

AWARDS

Robyn Bavati was shortlisted for Within These Walls for the 2018 WAYRA (West Australian Young Readers Book Awards) in the Older Readers Category and in the Younger Readers Category in the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards.

Wendy Orr's Dragonfly Song won the 2017 PM's and was an Honours Book in the Younger Readers Category in the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. It has also been shortlisted for the 2018 Children's Literature Awards in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

NEW BOOKS

Kevin Hart's latest book of poetry, Barefoot, will be published in February 2018 by Notre Dame Press.

Barry Hill's latest book Reason and Lovelessness, Essays, Encounters, Reviews 1980-2017 will be published in March 2018 by Monash University.

Vicki Bennett's latest book The Little Stowaway will be published by Scholastic in March 2018.

Kevin Walsh's best selling books on Waterwise Gardening and Waterwise Plants have been combined in a new edition in December 2017, Waterwise Plants and Gardening.

Gerald Murnane's latest work of fiction, Border Districts was published in November 2017, and will be published by FSG in the USA in March 2018.

Andrew Marmont'sTheir Finest Hour - A History of the Rugby League World Cup in 10 Matches was published in July 2017.

FILM ADAPTATIONS

Jane Lyons' book 100% Wolfwill be adapted for the big screen as an animated feature film. Screen Australia, together with Screenwest and Create NSW, are investing in the production.